Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Guira Tanager
Common Names in French:
Tangara guira
Common Names in German:
Guiratangare
Common Names in Japanese:
カオグロキゴシフウキンチョウ
Description
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Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, gallery forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 1,000 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,028 meters (0 to 9,934 feet).[1]
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 2 Savanna
- 2.1 Savanna - Dry
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.3 Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations
- 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder:
Passeres
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) C. Linnaeus, 1766
- Superfamily:
Passeroidea
()
-
- Family:
Thraupidae
()
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
()
- Tribe:
Thraupini
()
- Genus:
Hemithraupis
()
- Cabanis 1850
- Specific name:
guira
- (Linnaeus) 1766
- Scientific name: - Hemithraupis guira (Linnaeus, 1766) (Linnaeus) 1766
- Specific name:
guira
- (Linnaeus) 1766
- Genus:
Hemithraupis
(
- Tribe:
Thraupini
(
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
(
- Family:
Thraupidae
(
- Superfamily:
Passeroidea
(
- Suborder:
Passeres
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Hemithraupis guira (Linnaeus, 1766)
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Hemithraupis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:
H. flavicollis (Yellow-Backed Tanager) · H. flavicollis flavicollis (Yellow-Backed Tanager) · H. guira (Guira Tanager) · H. guira guira (Guira Tanager) · H. ruficapilla (Rufous-Headed Tanager)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- A contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Brazil, by Charles E. Hellmayr. 12 1929 Chicago, 1929. url p. 286.
- Annotated checklist of bird and mammal species of Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru / John W. Terborgh, John W. Fitzpatrick, Louise Emmons. 21 1984 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1984. url table 2 , p. 25.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 392, p. 440.
- Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1971 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 191, p. 191.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1936 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1936. url p. 372, p. 373, p. 375, p. 379.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 271.
- Contents and index to volume 12, numbers 1 to 19, Zoological series / Wilfred H. Osgood. 12 1929 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1929. url p. 512.
- Occasional papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas. 1991 Lawrence, Kan.: The University, 1971-1994. url p. 15.
- Ornithological gazetteer of Argentina / Raymond A. Paynter. 1995 Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1995. url p. 956.
- Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress. [Canberra, etc.]: Australian Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 1083, p. 1141.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 252, p. 533, p. 572, p. 657, p. 678.
- The distribution of bird-life in Colombia; a contribution to a biological survey of South America, New York, Pub. by order of the trustees, 1917. url , .
Notes
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Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2009. Hemithraupis guira. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
- Senckenberg: Collection Aves (spirit preserved)
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7555
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-730964
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14025645
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 560381
- IUCN ID: 213739
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 130459
Footnotes
- Mean = 778.690 meters (2,554.757 feet), Standard Deviation = 721.770 based on 35 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
